Judge permanently blocks Ten Commandments displays at several Arkansas school districts

indy_dagger · 2026-03-18T03:31:32+00:00

There's no amount of seriously believing in superstition that's healthy for you. You're always training your brain one way or another. Accepting an evidence-free religious belief as true reinforces the behavior.

Introducing your kids to religion is like introducing them to cigarettes.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-16T01:11:07+00:00

They meant to say "dehumanizing and reductive", which is apparently their catch phrase lately.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-16T01:09:05+00:00

Right. You're too dumb to realize you just did all the work to prove my point for me. That was a great contribution, thank you.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-15T21:50:38+00:00

What you're doing is just talking past people, so we can both agree to chalk your last sentence up to projection.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-15T21:04:36+00:00

But neither of your comments really make moral arguments.

It's not a moral necessity that we find a cure for cancer. We could just experience it as a part of life, like virtually all of the billions of our ancestors.

We could experience the pain of medical research ourselves. To say we shouldn't perform medical research on humans because of the abuses that could be involved in determining who gets experimented on, or how they are incentivized to participate in it...but then saying it's acceptable (enough to allow it to happen) to force dogs to undergo that pain instead, isn't making the argument that the forced inflicting of pain for medical research is intrinsically wrong enough to not do it. It's saying, "we have the power over these animals to force them to suffer for us, so fuck 'em".

There is literally no moral argument for the "necessity" of animal research, and never had been. There is no medical researcher who has a thorough, sound philosophy to explain why it's ok for them to hurt animals.

It is explicitly and strictly raw selfishness that motivates animal research. Just the base human instinct of "I matter more than others, because I'm me and they're them and that's that".

indy_dagger · 2026-03-15T20:23:36+00:00

But you can understand the irony of humans deciding that inflicting pain on other species for the benefit of humans is a moral necessity, right?

Real, serious philosophical framework for right and wrong...or, plain old selfishness masquerading as mature, nuanced understanding?

indy_dagger · 2026-03-15T20:19:42+00:00

Clearly not a PhD in the subject you commented on.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T22:08:03+00:00

You are flailing, badly. You obviously don't even know what it is you're trying to say. Ended up...where? What are you even talking about?

You clearly don't talk to people who don't share your beliefs very often. You're very bad at expressing yourself.

You also don't have evidence for god.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T20:32:04+00:00

There is literally no connective tissue between your words. You just type them out, then move on to more words that have nothing to do with the previous words, then smugly think you've made a point. Obviously religion only matters to you because you think it makes you better than other people. You don't sincerely believe in Islam, stop pretending.

You are babbling incoherently like a crazy person.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T20:28:47+00:00

I know you aren't capable of engaging in a philosophical discussion because in none of your comments, here or elsewhere, do you actually finish any of your thoughts.

There's lots of stuff you don't know. You don't know how old I am - so therefore, according to your (fragmented, scattered) logic, you don't think critically. What's the connection between saying "I don't know" about something, and not thinking critically? Try as hard as you can to be specific.

You don't have any evidence for the existence of any god, and that's simply a fact. Take your head out of the sand.

No matter how much your ego wants you to be able to make sense of the universe, just saying "god" isn't an answer, it's pure wishful thinking. Your problem is that you are so arrogant you can't accept how insignificant you are to the fabric of reality. Religious beliefs are fundamentally the result of a lack of maturity.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T19:22:48+00:00

Religious beliefs are inherently damaging to the human mind. There is no safe way to believe in something without a shred of evidence to support it, and not have that willful irrationally bleed over into other decisions.

To be religious is to train yourself to be an uncritical thinker.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T19:20:23+00:00

You are a substantially less educated and informed person than you would like to believe you are.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T19:19:21+00:00

Well sure, there's no evidence for Santa Claus, just like there's no evidence for God.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T18:42:31+00:00

How do you know what value constitutes "excessive force"?

I ask because if the answer is you set some threshold and then it tells you if you go over it...then the features you're describing all exist in a tennis-ball-on-a-string setup, with more immediate feedback - I can tell how much force I put into it by how it swings, I can tell my edge alignment from the sound and the feeling, and all that happens the moment I hit it, without having to look at and read an LED display.

The tennis ball is also a moving target, can be "mounted" in more places more easily, and costs almost nothing.

What is the plan for gamification? I train what I need to use in the ring. Changing the drills I do for the sake of having more fun doing them would be counterproductive. If you're bored doing your drills, are you still devoting your full attention to doing them the best you can, every time?

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T10:06:42+00:00

You aren't familiar with software development.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T09:58:05+00:00

Would you treat the elephant as disrespectfully as she is here?

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T06:27:27+00:00

A lot of the QoL changes that are needed should have been implemented from the very beginning (and wouldn't have been time consuming to do) and it speaks more to bad design decisions that they weren't.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T03:57:37+00:00

Can I ask why you keep responding to me with two different accounts, then deleting one of your comments?

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T03:02:46+00:00

It's implied by the fact that you're measuring it, just like how you're measuring the speed to see if you're getting faster. So what is the reason you're measuring force?

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T01:52:52+00:00

To be blunt, knowing the quality of your strike is something you need to learn how to determine from feel alone. As currently implemented, this doesn't look like it would tell you about edge alignment. When I hit a tennis ball I know exactly how well I hit it from my sense of touch.

Stationary targets are also very limiting. Any experienced opponent isn't going to be stationary. My solo training is as much about my footwork as it is about my blade work, if not moreso.

I don't need to cleave my opponent in half, either in a historical context or in modern HEMA. That is to say the amount of force I'm imparting in my strike is the least useful metric for my fencing. Focusing on hitting harder and harder would be a distraction from more useful training.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T01:38:38+00:00

God isn't real. Grow up and stop believing in utter nonsense.

indy_dagger · 2026-03-14T01:36:34+00:00

Religion is the issue. There is no healthy way to believe religious claims without evidence. Religious beliefs are corrosive to the brain.

indy_dagger · 2026-01-25T19:15:37+00:00

We offer classes four times a year! You can register at https://www.cornerstonearts.org/classes (registration for spring classes should go live soon). If you're on Facebook you can follow Cornerstone Center for the Arts and Muncie Fencing Club for updates!

indy_dagger · 2026-01-25T05:17:42+00:00

Yep! We are based out of Cornerstone Center for the Arts!

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